Sunday, 22 December 2019

Excerpt from the Blue Cliff Record, Case 86

He holds the world fast without the slightest leak; he cuts off the myriad flows without keeping a drop. Open your mouth and you're wrong; hesitate in thought and you miss. But tell me, what is the barrier-penetrating eye? To test, I cite this to see:

Yun Men imparted some words saying, "Everyone has a light; when you look at it, you don't see it and it's dark and dim. What is everybody's light?"

He himself answered on their behalf, "The kitchen pantry and the main gate." He also said, "A good thing isn't as good as nothing."

As soon as they hear you mention "light", people these days immediately put a glare in their eyes and say, "Where is the kitchen pantry? Where is the main gate?" But this has nothing to do with it. Thus it is said, "Perceive the meaning on the hook; don't abide by the zero point of the scale."

Just understand Yun Men's final statement thoroughly, then you can go back to the former one to roam at play. But ultimately, you do not make a living there.


Not abiding by the zero-point of the scale, what is the barrier-penetrating eye? Light or dark?



Submitted December 23, 2019 at 12:42AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2QeAV4J

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